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CalEden
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Updating my iPhone to 2.1 fried the phone. How happy is Jobs going to be on warrenty phone replacement costs?
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 7:47 am on Sep. 11, 2008
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DaffyDuck
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Quote: from CalEden on 10:22 pm on Sep. 11, 2008
Updating my iPhone to 2.1 fried the phone.
Odd, seeing as how 2.1 is not available for another 24 hours, at least. Care to share where you got yours?
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 10:00 am on Sep. 11, 2008
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CalEden
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2.0.2 pretty close to 2.1, I must rounded up.
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 8:44 pm on Sep. 11, 2008
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DaffyDuck
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Quote: from CalEden on 11:18 am on Sep. 12, 2008
Fair enough, and understandable considering your parents couldn't afford a proper education for you. Oh well, good luck with night school..
http://venturebeat.com/2008/09/11/the-fix-is-on-iphone-21-software-out-tomorrow/
The fix is on? iPhone 2.1 software out tomorrow.
One of the key elements of Apple chief executive Steve Jobs’ keynote during this week’s “Let’s Rock” event was not a product announcement at all, but an announced update. The iPhone 2.1 software update is due out tomorrow, and Jobs has set expectations extremely high for it.
“The 2.1 software update is a big update. It fixes lots of bugs. You’ll get fewer call drops. You will get significantly improved battery life for most customers. We have fixed a lot of bugs where if you have a lot of apps on the phone, you’re not going to get some of the crashes and other things that we’ve seen. Backing up to iTunes is dramatically faster,” Jobs stated during the keynote.
Application bugs. Dropped calls. Battery life. Backing up. Perhaps the four most-complained-about elements of the iPhone — and Jobs is claiming that this update will fix them all.
Of course we’ve heard it before. First the 2.0.1 update was going to fix problems, then the 2.0.2 was supposed to solve all the issues. Apple and AT&T were so sure that 2.0.2 was going to fix the connection issues that some users were having, that it went so far as to send text messages to every iPhone 3G owner telling them to download the update. Still, many felt problems persisted.
But there are indications that this update could be the one. The 2.1 software is actually already out for the iPod touch and while obviously that device doesn’t have connection issues (because it’s not a phone), talk is circulating that elements of the applications have improved dramatically. Specifically, application updates done on the phone are said to increase fivefold, an AppleInsider forum member noted. It’s also worth noting that when you update an application on the phone its icon retains its position. (Right now when you update an app on the phone it moves to the end of the last screen.)
The one part of Jobs’ comments that worries me is the “for most customers” part that was added on to his claim of better battery life. Perhaps he’s just covering his bases. As I’ve argued, some complaints about battery life have to be tied to the fact that customers use the iPhone so much, for many different functions. So maybe Jobs just wants to make it clear that for extreme users of the device, the battery life will never be great.
The 2.1 update will launch at some point tomorrow and will be a free upgrade for current iPhone owners.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 8:49 pm on Sep. 11, 2008
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China Sailor
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In reading that it strikes me that it sound so similar to the statements made by Ballmer about Vista  ...
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 1:33 pm on Sep. 12, 2008
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snpark
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apart from you
cos if I ask you how it is, we already know the answer
someone independant please
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Posted on: 8:47 am on Sep. 13, 2008
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CalEden
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Just updated this morning, night school told me to do so per DD. Haven't used it alot since the update. The sound is louder and the over all operating system seems to be faster only things I've noticed so far, Apple is not my life.
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 8:16 pm on Sep. 13, 2008
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DaffyDuck
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Quote: from quack quack on 10:57 am on Sep. 14, 2008
How is it, Duck?
Overall, a VERY worthwhile improvement!
General speed and responsiveness are back to pre-2.0 levels, in terms of how fast the interface responds, how smooth transitions works, etc... So far, no lagging when typing with the keyboard, etc...
My battery life has significantly improved, so far clocking in at nearly double the time my battery lasted previously, which is a very nice improvement as well.
Lots of other small changes and improvements. Haven't noticed any 3G or EDGE differences in connectivity, since I didn't have issues before, but I do appear to have more bars in more places than before.
Only grip so far is that the font in the podcasting section of 'iPod' has increased and looks a lot less elegant. I suspect that's a temporary issue, though, and just something that's slipped out -- I see no functional reason why this change happened and may be setting that got confused with the larger font size of the iPod nano (which I lust for, by the way).
The iPod section now displays more album and artist information under the track name (which is what the podcasting section SHOULD be doing, IMO).
Dan Moren from MacWorld provides some decent insights:
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First Look: iPhone 2.1
Latest update to the iPhone software brings lots of fixes and a few new features
by Dan Moren, Macworld.com Sep 12, 2008 4
iPhone 2.0 brought a lot of cool features with it, but it also brought a lot of bugs. Performance was slow, calls dropped often, and the battery life was less than impressive—and that’s just off the top of my head.
Apple promised on Tuesday that the iPhone 2.1 update, released Friday morning, would save us all from the iPhone 2.0’s sins, but as it turns out, the software brings with it more than just bug fixes. Apple also took the time to sneak in a few new features along with its extensive mea culpa.
Music to your ears
The most significant feature changes in iPhone 2.1 come in the device’s iPod application. For one thing, in most views when displaying a list of tracks, the iPod app borrows a page from Apple’s Remote application, showing the artist and album in smaller text underneath.
When browsing Podcasts or Videos, the iPhone 2.1 software also gives you more information. Rather than displaying a blue dot next to a video or podcast that hasn’t been listened to or watched, the software now also shows a blue half-moon for videos that have been started but not finished. And in the case of podcasts, it will also tell you how much time remains from the point at which you stopped listening. Telling episodes apart is easier too, since the iPhone will also show you when episodes were published, the episode name, and the full runtime.
Real Genius
The biggest addition to the iPod application is, of course, the new Genius feature that pervades all of the new products that Apple introduced this week. (Our iTunes 8 review explains the Genius in greater depth.) You’ll need to sync your iPhone to your computer before you get access to Genius, but once it’s installed creating a Genius playlist is easy: When listening to a song, tap the album art to show the scrubber panel. Nestled in between the shuffle and repeat controls is the Genius’s “atom” icon. Tapping that will generate a Genius playlist based on the playing track.
Once you’ve created a Genius playlist—which, unlike iTunes, is limited to 25 tracks on the iPhone—you can save it, refresh it with new songs, or create a Genius playlist based on a different song on your iPhone. Saving the playlist will add it to your existing playlists; it’ll be named after the song on which the playlist was based and there’ll be a Genius icon next to it. There’s also a “Genius” playlist that permanently resides at the top of the playlist list and shows the last playlist you generated.
Everything else
Outside of the iPod app, there are a few other new features sprinkled around the iPhone OS update. For example, the Parental Restrictions setting now allows you to turn off access to the iPhone’s camera, which not only removes the Camera application from the Home screen, but also disallows access from third-party applications that implement camera features.
For the security conscious, the Passcode Lock section of Settings now offers an option to erase all data on the iPhone after 10 failed attempts at entering the passcode (which presumably works—you’ll pardon me if I didn’t test its effectiveness). Apple also made a handful of security updates, including preventing applications from viewing each other’s data and closing a loophole with the Emergency Call feature of the Passcode Lock.
Those who use the iPhone’s stock earbuds (or have a third-party headphone adapter with a click control) will also find that in addition to clicking once to play or pause music and twice to skip to the next track, a triple-click will now jump back to the previous track.
In addition, the SMS application will now alert you up to two additional times if you don’t acknowledge an incoming text message. And Apple’s also changed the icon in the menu for cell networks: instead of displaying white text in a blue box, the icons for 3G, EDGE, and GPRS are now just white text on a black background or blue text on a gray background, depending on the context.
In terms of bug fixes, Apple appears to have delivered a lot of the stability that was missing from the 2.0 iPhone software. As promised, iTunes backups take substantially less time than they did previously; installing third-party applications is definitely faster, even over 3G; and loading or searching contacts is definitely snappier.
Other bug fixes aren’t quite as easily tested in the short-term, like better battery life, fewer dropped calls, and fewer hangs and crashes, but you can bet that we’ll be keeping an eye on whether or not they measure up to Apple’s claims.
[Associate editor Dan Moren blogs about the iPhone for iPhone Central.]
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
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